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named bird is only a winter visitant to Corfu, and is extremely- 

 scarce in Greece, while in Crete a Chaffinch is very numerous, 

 breeds, and probablyremains throughout the year. Unfortunately 

 Col. Drummond-Hay has no specimens for comparison j and the 

 exact state of the question, with some other points of like in- 

 terest, must remain undecided until some ornithologist sets them 

 at rest. We wish there was any chance of the worthy President 

 of the B. 0. U. revisiting the localities where he gained his 

 early laurels, and recording his observations in our pages, to 

 which, until now, his name has been a stranger ! 



The two works* which in little more than a twelvemonth have 

 been published by the writer whose pseudonym is so agreeably 

 known to the readers of one of our sporting newspapers demand 

 some notice at our hands, more indeed than we can now accord 

 to them. Mr. H. W. Wheelwright (for we believe we need not 

 feign any ignorance of what almost every one knows to be the 

 "Old Bushman's" real name), in 1863, emulous of the success 

 which had attended Mr, Wolley's protracted researches in Lap- 

 land, proceeded to that country, selecting as the scene of his 

 own operations the district around Quickjock, some hundred 

 miles to the west and south of the large tract which sufficiently 

 engaged his predecessor's labours. Here he passed several 

 months, forming a fine collection of birds and eggs, and making 

 some excellent observations on the natural history of the district, 

 which, having first appeared in a series of papers in the ' Field,' 

 were soon afterwards collected into the smaller volume whose 

 title is appended to this notice. The avifauna of Lulea Lappmark 

 difiers not inconsiderably from that of the regions further north 

 and east, the products of which are now pretty well known to 

 us through Mr. Wolley's exertions, several of the Anatidm and 

 ScolopacidcB which breed plentifully in the valley of the Muonio 

 being found to be rare or not to occur at all on the tributaries 



* A Spring and Summer in Lapland. By an Old Bushman. London : 

 1864. 12mo. 



Ten Years in Sweden : being a Description of the Landscape, Climate, 

 Domestic Life, Forests, Mines, Agriculture, Field- Sports, and Fauna of 

 Scandinavia. By an Old Bushman. London : 1865. 8vo. 



